Brian Schatz

With the exception of our longstanding commitments to the Republic of Korea and Japan, we've largely had a 'places, not bases' defense posture in the Asia Pacific.

I want to understand that discrepancy.

You can count on me to try to support this as much possible.

We have a terrible problem with homelessness.

Last week, CMS announced a partnership with Hawaii to help navigate how to best leverage Medicaid in the effort to reduce homelessness.

I think it is an important way to make sure we can--for Hawaii, it is 40 percent, 50 percent of the market.

I'm concerned that we're locked into a plan that may not make any sense anymore logistically.

Our undersea- and anti-submarine warfare capabilities gives us an advantage over our adversaries.

This is, I think, squarely the jurisdiction of the expert agency.

The financial incentives are just not there when you're talking about the auctions.

We actually need an unlicensed plan that involves low-band, mid-band, and high-band spectrum.

It has democratized Internet access.

Good spectrum policy requires both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.

I think we need a clear plan to support continued innovation in the unlicensed band.

I think we all agree on the objectives of the FCC.

I think I am taking that as a no, which is to say that I think--Mr.

I think the budget caps are shortsighted. I strongly believe that we should adjust all the caps to enable critical investments in our aging infrastructure, research and development, small business, defense, and intelligence.

Congress can help by authorizing a new Base Realignment and Closure round.

Well, I want to appreciate General Brooks as well for his leadership, and 'More faces and more places with less bases' I know is his saying.

I think a casual observer might get the mistaken impression that this is a problem that is primarily a Navy and Marine Corps' issue.

I want to understand how you see aquaculture fitting into that because on a sort of common sense level, to the degree and extent that recognizing that different regions have different concerns regarding aquaculture, that this seems to be a…

Do you need any clarification from the Congress in terms of this optimum or maximum yield question when it comes to aquaculture?

I think even if we are able to fund this supplemental, and I anticipate that we will be, the vector-control piece has to be at least partly funded by State and local governments.

What we need from CDC is for you to communicate through our U.S. Senators, our Members of Congress, our Governors, what it is that is required.

I don't think there is really any doubt that we ought to fund the supplemental as quickly as we can.